Laws which are impossible to avoid breaking are effectively a "writ of assistance," and are unconstitutional.

In fact, until it was repealed, the 55 mi/hr speed limit qualified - most of the time anyone driving on a freeway could either be cited for driving faster than 55 mi/hr or obstructing traffic.

And you try telling that to the young people of today, and they won't believe you!

(mods: it's the punch line to the 4 Yorkshiremen's sketch. Go look it up)

Yeah, but I think the point is that without the Internet, it would have taken a lot longer, unless the AM talk radio blowhard in question limited the range to something less than the continental United States.

Every Canon IJ printer I've ever bought has had a "dumb" tank that just ended at a sponge rather than (like HP) having the print head built-in. Not coincidently, Canon ink cartridges, so far as I have found, have been cheaper than their competitors.

Or just use a wooden bat.

I think that might be the most insightful safety related commentary I have ever heard of.

By what standard?

Fatalities per passenger-mile? I think the shuttle program is WAY ahead of the passenger auto on that score.

I suspect more folks would think the labeling issue would be the opposite one - that they wouldn't want to be eating so-called "FrankenMeat." I suspect whoever has the ox to gore will be on the higher priced side of the equation. I imagine those desiring cow flesh over Soylent Red will find the former costs far less for some time to come, but when those two cost graphs cross...

Adults sign their names to what they say.

You have to be more specific than that. The Chinese have had rockets for just shy of a thousand years.

How else would you describe any chemically powered vehicle?

Oh, the delicious irony.

That's exactly the series of events that gave us the abomination that is Linux - Linus sat down in his dorm room and reverse-engineered Unix. An OS that had a 20 year head start on development and security fixes and what not.

Dirty Jobs just aired a special episode that I think is on point. The episode introduced the mantra, "Safety third." This is not to say that Safety is unimportant, but that in every case, the safest course is to not engage in an activity with risk. If you put safety first, you won't get anything done at all.

Now, the reason Mike Rowe had safety 3rd was that first was getting the job done (or at least, making a decent attempt) and second was making entertaining television. In most cases, I dare say the 2nd qualification doesn't apply, so Safety coming in second is a better expectation. I actually think Mike was being cavalier by suggesting that Safety is always in the top ten and often the top five. I'd hesitate to keep it out of the top 3 on any occasion, but life wouldn't be worth living if safety truly always came first.

It's doubly ironic that I bring up Dirty Jobs in combination with a discussion about NASA. One of the segments in this very episode lambasted NASA for putting the Dirty Jobs crew through a safety briefing about confined space safety concerns that they were in no way going to actually encounter doing the work that they were going to film. Your tax dollars at work.

Sigh. You missed it.

AAC files are smaller for the same quality or better for the same file size than MP3. What you call a "walled garden" 1) has no walls (because it's completely open), and 2) like most gardens is much nicer than the wilderness outside.

The support for it is far more widespread than you make it sound.

Which has nothing at all to do with music - stop changing the subject.